[pp.int.general] One good, one bad

[Christian Hufgard]

Brian McNeil wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 11:14 +0100, Christian Hufgard wrote:
>> Boris Turovskiy wrote:
>> > Even taking the number of seats as the measure of power (which is
>> > false), you are wrong. On the contrary, if a country with 100
>> > inhabitants gets 10 seats and a country with 10 inhabitants gets 1
>> seat,
>> > it's a strong skew in favour of the larger country.
>>
>> That's why is pretty strange, to think in countries, if you want to have
>> a
>> government for more than one. Let all 110 inhabitants vote for the 11
>> seats. Of course, the 10 inhabitants will have less influence - but
>> since
>> they are the minority, why should it not be that way?
>
> Have you never heard the expression, "Democracy is two wolves and a
> sheep voting on what's for dinner"?

Not yet. But it is pretty similar to this one: Democracy is the
dictatorship of the majority.



Christian